Media personality and Trump-endorsed second-place finisher in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race, Kari Lake had her legal appeal questioning the state’s election results largely shot down by the Arizona Supreme Court last week.
But Lake found a fresh lifeline for her claim that the election was “stolen” in Trump’s Waco speech, as she shared a clip of Trump’s remarks and re-asserted her debunked contention that Arizona voting machines were “sabotaged.”
.@realDonaldTrump is right.
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) March 26, 2023
In Arizona, the corrupt election officials knew our movement was going to swamp the polls on Election Day, so they sabotaged the machines.
Republicans have to get smarter about voting.
And we must demand Voter ID. pic.twitter.com/anuKIOkRMO
[Note: “Arizona’s top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s challenge to her election loss,” AZ Central reports, “but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake’s claims back to a county judge to review.”]
Trump’s speech to a group of his followers in Waco, Texas saw the former president trot out a familiar list of alleged menaces to the Republic, including his claim that Republican voters found voting machines broken when they tried to vote.
“That’s what they do to you,” Trump said, repeating what has been a roundly repudiated claim, considered “baseless” even inside Fox News. “That’s what they did to some very special people,” Trump said to the Waco congregants.
Lake considers herself one of those “very special people” and shared the clip of Trump’s speech that addressed voting and took aim at his enemies, who he said are “good at stealing, lying…and keeping borders open.”
Lake writes: “In Arizona, the corrupt election officials knew our movement was going to swamp the polls on Election Day, so they sabotaged the machines.” Lake’s name is sometimes bandied about as a potential running mate for Trump 2024.
